Orr v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $61,250 as rent accrued on and after October 20, 1910, under a mining lease to defendants upon land the title to an undivided interest in which had been adjudged to be in plaintiffs.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $61,250 as rent accrued on and after October 20, 1910, under a mining lease to defendants upon land the title to an undivided interest in which had been adjudged to be in plaintiffs. The joint answer of defendants Bennett and Longyear alleged that, pursuant to an assignment by William Sauntry, they had paid $2,500 to the First National Bank of Stillwater, that Robert W. Hunt and others also claimed the remaining rent, and prayed that the other claimants be substituted as parties defendant to the action in place of themselves and they…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
In 1907 William Sauntry owned an undivided half of 40 acres of land in St. Louis county. On December 31, 1907, Sauntry and his cotenant gave to defendants Bennett and Longyear a 50-year mining lease of said land, by the terms of which Bennett and Longyear agreed to pay for the first four years a minimum rental or royalty of $20,000 per year, payable quarterly.
On October 1, 1908, Sauntry and wife gave a mortgage covering his half interest in the land, and in the mortgage there was inserted a clause that the mortgagors “sell, assign, transfer, set over and convey” the “mining lease” and all of…
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